Apparently, this global-warming scenario seems to be getting worse. This morning from the Washington Post: Sea levels could rise faster along the U.S. East Coast than in any other densely populated part of the world,…

An understated environmental report today from the UK, calling climate change theÂ biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. Lead author of the report Professor Anthony Costello: â€œThe big message of this report is that climate…

Toxic Hog Dump (h/tÂ to tristero at Hullabaloo). From December 2006 rollingstone.com: Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs…

As all the world’s current problems and entanglements become more tightlyÂ bound together in a kind ofÂ Gordian knot, one item seems to be fading from any public discourse — the end of oil. Although there’s a…

Another strange little twist in modern living. From theÂ BBC this week: The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.…